You will much oblige me by attention to what I now say, Mr.Wotherspoon.It is possible that I may ask you to see that its substance reaches Black Hill." He leaned back in his chair and with his gold-brown eyes met the lawyer's keen blue ones.

"Nothing now can be injured by telling you that for a year I have acted under responsibility of having in keeping greater fortunes than my own.

That kind of thing, none can know better than you, binds a man out of his own path and his own choices into the path and choices of others.
Secrecy was demanded of me.

I ceased to write home, and presently I removed from old lodgings and purposely blurred indications of where I was or might be found.

In this way--the warring, troubled time aiding--it occurred that there practically ceased all communication between me and those of my blood and friendship whose political thinking differs from mine....